U+18385 "𘎅" Tangut Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𘎅
U+18385 "𘎅" Tangut Ideograph-# is a specific written symbol from the extinct Tangut script, which was used to record the Tangut language of the Western Xia dynasty in medieval China. This character belongs to a large set of logographic ideographs, known as Tangut characters, that were deciphered from historical manuscripts and monumental inscriptions. U+18385 represents a unique semantic or phonetic value within that writing system, though its exact meaning or pronunciation is not widely recognized outside of specialist scholarly contexts. Its inclusion in the Unicode Standard allows for digital preservation, research, and cross-platform representation of this ancient script.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+18385 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Tangut Ideograph-# |
| Block | Tangut |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𘎅 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𘎅 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x98 0x8E 0x85 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD820 0xDF85 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00018385 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud820\udf85 |
Unicode Properties
| NFC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFD Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKC Quick Check | Yes |
| NFKD Quick Check | Yes |
| Numeric Type | None |
| Numeric Value | NaN |
| Line Break | Ideographic |
| East Asian Width | Wide |
| Script | Tangut |
| Script Extensions | Tangut |
| Indic Syllabic Category | Other |
| ID Start | Yes |
| XID Start | Yes |
| ID Continue | Yes |
| XID Continue | Yes |
| Alphabetic | Yes |
| Vertical Orientation | Upright |
| Grapheme Base | Yes |
| Grapheme Cluster Break | Other |
| Word Break | Other |
| Sentence Break | OLetter |
| Ideographic | Yes |
| kTGT_RSUnicode | 432.11 |
| kTGT_MergedSrc | H2004-A-5796 |